A Practical Handbook for the Actor
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · April 12, 1986
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- Who it’s for
- A grounded approach to acting, focused on finding truthful behavior within imaginary circumstances.
- Themes
- Acting technique, Truthful performance
- Genres
- Acting
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For anyone who has ever wanted to take an acting class, "this is the best book on acting written in the last twenty years" (David Mamet, from the Introduction). This book describes a technique developed and refined by the authors, all of them young actors, in their work with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet, actor W. H. Macy, and director Gregory Mosher.
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A Practical Handbook for the Actor is written for any actor who has ever experienced the frustrations of acting classes that lacked clarity and objectivity, and that failed to provide a dependable set of tools. An actor's job, the authors state, is to "find a way to live truthfully under the imaginary circumstances of the play." The ways in which an actor can attain that truth form the substance of this eloquent book.
Acting With Clarity
A grounded approach to acting, focused on finding truthful behavior within imaginary circumstances.
Come here for
- A clear-eyed alternative to acting classes that leave the work vague
- Practical tools for approaching a role
Expect
- A technique shaped through the authors’ work with experienced theater artists
- A direct focus on truthful action, not theatrical mystique
Where it sits
| Acting | 100% |
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Publisher categories
- Acting
- Stagecraft
- Business of Performing Arts
- Authors
- Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- April 12, 1986
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Acting technique · Truthful performance
- Reading lane
- Acting